vertigo
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She reported her vertigo to a neurologist, described her joint pain to a rheumatologist, complained of bloating to her primary-care physician.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
"In 2006, nearly 2,000 residents suffered from vertigo, sight problems and nausea after it rained in Guney, with blood tests showing cyanide in their blood," he said.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
She said she was nervous about the Mount Etna expedition in Italy because she had vertigo on a recent ascent of Ben Vorlich, her first Munro.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
According to research at Northwestern University, vertigo and dizziness account for about one in 30 emergency-room visits, and the average patient is just over 50 years old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
I try again and another wave of vertigo unbalances me.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Soon after that early period he became subject to vertigoes, which he thought indicative of a tendency to apoplexy; and was occasionally bled rather profusely, which only increased the symptoms.
From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Ainger, Alfred
Before returning to a consciousness of his existence he experiences vertigoes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
The "inspissated gloom" of his work, its tenebrous gulfs and musical vertigoes are true indices of his morbid pathology.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
Then had come vertigoes and strange, inexplicable qualms, as if he were in an elevator that sank under him with terrifying rapidity.
From The Pit by Norris, Frank
In a statement from the Senegal FA, team doctor Dr Abdourahmane Fedior said Mane had been "replaced due to the vertigos he had on the pitch" after scoring.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
The position of our American colonel was the worst, for he was very stout and short-sighted, which defects, taken together, caused him frequent vertigos.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
"The forerunners of an apoplexy are dulness, vertigos, tremblings."—ARBUTHNOT: ib.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The facets danced their vivid vertigos into his brain.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.
He says further: "That, administered with great circumspection, it should prove useful in certain varieties of delirium, vertigos and cramps."
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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